Virtual Virtual Reality

April 26, 2008 10:09 PM

Decker isn't quite a roguelike about hacking in the world of Shadowrun with Windows 3.1-era graphics, but it's as close as you're ever gonna come.
posted by Pope Guilty (16 comments total)

Is this new, or has it been around for awhile? Because if we're linking to games that have been around for a bit but haven't caught on as well as they might've, there's always the 3D version of Scorched Earth.
posted by Eideteker at 10:18 PM on April 26 [5 favorites]

This has been around for a good long while. My computer broke recently, and when I dragged out the old Windows 98 machine (the horror, the horror!), I found Decker again and was like "Oh, MeFi might like that."
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:27 PM on April 26

poor mac users.
posted by Pants! at 10:49 PM on April 26

Man it sure sucks to be a mac user, can't ever run windows games. :/

*the daniel, poor mac user that he is, fires up VirtualBox running a copy of Windows and runs the game*
posted by thedaniel at 11:51 PM on April 26

Uplink. That is all.
posted by tracert at 12:16 AM on April 27 [2 favorites]

Uplink was cool, but after a while it seemed really repetitive.
posted by adamdschneider at 12:40 AM on April 27

Ah, Shadowrun. Last of my roleplaying games, for sure. Definitely helped me think my way into the now.
posted by mwhybark at 12:40 AM on April 27

Man. I've only just now started this, but if I keep being able to figure out what I'm doing I might just get addicted. DAMN YOU.

+favorite
posted by Stunt at 3:34 AM on April 27

yer, uplink was cool. could have used with more content though, it did get a bit repetitive.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 4:31 AM on April 27

Whoa, I played this game years ago but I had forgotten about it.
Thanks!
posted by Memo at 8:55 AM on April 27

Once upon a time I used to play this while on tech support calls.
posted by Tenuki at 9:25 AM on April 27

I should've mentioned this: Read the help files or the interface will make little sense.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:33 AM on April 27

I think everyone who's interested in these games should play Larn. It's not the "best" roguelike, but it's fun and unique.
posted by JHarris at 9:54 AM on April 27

God, I haven't played this for years. Of course, the shadowrun system now has a completely different hacking mechanism now.

I was introduced to this by a sort of friend who actually knew the guy. My brush with fame, I suppose.
posted by Hactar at 11:36 AM on April 27

Another great simulated-hacking game is Spybot: the Nightfall Incident. It has a dumb name and you need to install Shockwave, but it's awesome. And of course for an MMORPG version, there's Slave Hack.
posted by whir at 4:03 PM on April 27

if we're linking to games that have been around for a bit but haven't caught on as well as they might've, there's always the 3D version of Scorched Earth.

And there went my Sunday.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 9:54 PM on April 27